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coconetl.

Headword: 
coconetl.
Principal English Translation: 

doll (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cōconētl
IPAspelling: 
koːkoneːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CŌCONĒ-TL pl: -MEH possessed form: -CONĒUH doll / muñeca [(1)Tp.121,(2)Zp.87,145,(3)Xp.33]. Following Spanish, X has extended the sense of this to ‘wrist,’ but T and Z have not. See CONĒ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 39.

themes: 
Children, Childhood, Adolescence